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The Enemy A Biography of Wyndham Lewis

The Enemy A Biography of Wyndham Lewis

Originally published in 1980 and nominated for the Duff Cooper Prize this was the first biography of Wyndham Lewis and was based on extensive archival research and interviews. It narrates Lewis’ years at Rugby and the Slade his bohemian life on the Continent the creation of Vorticism and publication of Blast and his experiences at Passchendaele as well as his many love affairs his bitter quarrels with Bloomsbury and the Sitwells the suppressed books of the thirties the evolution of his political ideas his self-imposed exile in North America and creative resurgence during his final blindness. Jeffrey Meyers also describes Lewis’ relationships with Roy Campbell D. H. Lawrence Katherine Mansfield T. E Lawrence Hemingway Huxley Yeats Auden Spender Orwell and McLuhan. As the self-styled Enemy emerges from the shadows he is seen as an independent and courageous artist and one of the most controversial and stimulating figures in modern English art and literature. | The Enemy A Biography of Wyndham Lewis

GBP 27.99
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The Language of Journalism Volume 1 Newspaper Culture

The Language of Journalism Volume 1 Newspaper Culture

The newspaper is to the twentieth century what the novel was for the nineteenth century: the expression of popular sentiment. In the first of a three-volume study of journalism and what it has meant as a source of knowledge and as a mechanism for orchestrating mass ideology Melvin J. Lasky provides a major overview. His research runs the gamut of material found in newspapers from the trivial to the profound from pseudo-science to habits of solid investigation. The volume is divided into four parts. The first attacks deficiencies in grammar and syntax with examples from newspapers and magazines drawn from the German as well as English-language press. The second examines the key issues of journalism: accuracy and authenticity. Lasky provides an especially acute account of differences between active literacy and passive viewing or the relationship of word and picture in defining authenticity. The third part emphasizes the problem of bias in everything from racial reporting to cultural correctness. This is the first systematic attempt to study racial nomenclature identity-labeling and literary discrimination. Lasky follows closely the model set by George Orwell a half century earlier. The final section of the work covers the competition between popular media and the redefinition of pornography and its language. The volume closes with an examination of how the popular culture both influenced and was influential upon literary titans like Hemingway Lawrence and Tynan. | The Language of Journalism Volume 1 Newspaper Culture

GBP 39.99
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The Nature of Literary Response Five Readers Reading

The Nature of Literary Response Five Readers Reading

In a rare fusion of literary sensibility with psychological research Norman N. Holland brings to light important data showing how personality in the fullest sense of character development and identity affects the way in which we read and interpret literature. This book will show that readers respond to literature in terms of their own lifestyle character personality or identity. By such terms psychoanalytic writers mean an individual's characteristic way of dealing with the demands of outer and inner reality. Each new experience develops the style while the pre-existing style shapes each new experience. The sub-title of this book Five Readers Reading reflects the fact that the author a distinguished literary critic worked with five student readers using a battery of psychological tests and extensive interviews to study the ways they reacted to classic short stories by Faulkner Hemingway and others. Combining his own interpretation of the stories with his understanding of the readers and their reactions Holland derives four principles that inform literary response. He then goes on to show how these principles apply not just to literary response but to the way personality shapes any experience. The book carries Holland's previous studies of creation and responsive recreation forward to a major theoretical statement. He rejects the artificial idea that one must think of a text (or other event) as separate from its perceivers illustrating the dynamics by which perceiver and perceived mutually create an experience. For critics and students of the psychology of human behavior this is challenging and seminal reading. | The Nature of Literary Response Five Readers Reading

GBP 130.00
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